Last week, while the world was distracted by the U.S. election, the World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C) published the href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/implementation-report/">WCAG 2.0 Implementation Report. This means they are one step closer to the Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 becoming an official "W3C
recommendation", that is, a web standard.
Among the web sites listed by the W3C as href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/implementation-report/implementation_list">successful implementations is our own href="http://www.washington.edu/doit/Video/Search/">DO-IT Video Search,
an application that allows people to search the full text of the DO-IT video library using closed captions.
As W3C notes in the href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/implementation-report/implementation
?implementation_id=15">implementation details for DO-IT Video Search,
we tried to attain Level AAA conformance (the highest level of accessibility), and
failed, settling instead for Level AA conformance.
This was no small effort, and I think there's much to be learned from our failures as well as our successes. This blog post is the first in a series that will explore our efforts to conform. Stay tuned over the coming weeks for an overview of our WCAG 2.0 conformance efforts, plus in-depth play-by-play of our experience with WCAG 2.0 success criteria related to reading level, audio description, and sign language.
I'll also be talking about all of this at 3:30pm on Thursday (11/13/08) at the Accessing Higher Ground conference in Boulder. I hope to see many of you there!
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